The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Zachary Baker's Oral History

Zachary Baker, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at Stanford University, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on January 10, 2013 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

This interview was conducted in English.

Zachary Baker was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1950.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Taking An Interest in Jewish Culture

4 min 40 sec

"Something Other Than Christian": Being the Only Jew in School

3 min 1 sec

From bar Kokhba to Herzl: Yiddish as the Missing Piece of Jewish Culture

3 min 8 sec

Learning Yiddish, First with My Grandfather

5 min 35 sec

Studying Yiddish Under Mordkhe Schaechter

4 min 57 sec

'How Big Government Rescued Yiddish Culture": How the NEH Saved YIVO

4 min 52 sec

The YIVO Building on 5th Avenue

3 min 53 sec

Working With Dina Abramowicz

4 min 26 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

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'Tevye's Daughters' cover

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Samuel Baker

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